Mirror OS drive in Raid

[JapanDave]

Hey All,

 

I just got my AMD Threadripper and various accessories and I wanted to setup the OS drive with RAID one/ mirrored drive. How do I go about doing this on the OS drive?

 

Cheers

[Master Disaster]

You create the RAID before installing the OS. Note that Windows might need you to supply additional drivers during install so it can see the RAID array.

[JapanDave]

1 minute ago, Master Disaster said:

You create the RAID before installing the OS. Note that Windows might need you to supply additional drivers during install so it can see the RAID array.

How do I do this?

[PineyCreek]

Or just use Microsoft Storage spaces for mirroring.

[JapanDave]

21 hours ago, PineyCreek said:

Or just use Microsoft Storage spaces for mirroring.

Are you talking about something like Azure and back up the System drive to the cloud?

[NelizMastr]

On 2/11/2020 at 7:35 AM, JapanDave said:

Are you talking about something like Azure and back up the System drive to the cloud?

No, storage spaces is a windows feature that makes software RAID easy.

 

btw, are we talking unraid os drive or actually the VM’s OS drive?

 

might as well just do the RAID on the pool the VMs reside on, that makes it unnecessary to have any other RAID in place anywhere else.

[JapanDave]

12 hours ago, NelizMastr said:

No, storage spaces is a windows feature that makes software RAID easy.

 

btw, are we talking unraid os drive or actually the VM’s OS drive?

 

might as well just do the RAID on the pool the VMs reside on, that makes it unnecessary to have any other RAID in place anywhere else.

Honestly, I am not a raid expert and I don't know how all this works with VM's etc. Basically, I want to clone my OS drive so if something happens I will have a backup I can use until I get a new SSD and recreate the cloned drive for future safety

[NelizMastr]

2 hours ago, JapanDave said:

Honestly, I am not a raid expert and I don't know how all this works with VM's etc. Basically, I want to clone my OS drive so if something happens I will have a backup I can use until I get a new SSD and recreate the cloned drive for future safety

But what is the OS drive here? Is that the Unraid OS drive or are we talking the OS drive of the VM running on top pf Unraid. That’s all I’m asking.